Swedish extreme metal outfit Meshuggah has recently posted on their official facebook page
that due to vocalist Jens Kidman coming down with a flu that "means business", and being
advised not to speak because of it, they will be playing instrumental versions of their
usual setlist for their performance tonight in Atlanta, Georgia. The facebook post also
encourages all those who are attending the show to scream along to the songs as substitution
for Kidman's absence.

Those participating in the thousand plus member singalong can all be guaranteed sore throats
the likes of which have never been experienced before, and bleeding ear drums from hearing
hundreds of Meshuggah fans destroying their vocal chords in unison.

If this show is recorded it'll be the funniest thing ever. Hundreds of people trying to yell in sync with the song and each other, it'll sound like hell lol. The performance itself however will undoubtedly be awesome. Meshuggah's guitars alone are so amazing that they can easily carry an entire show by themselves if they had to.

Great article. I would think an "instru-metal" would get really boring, seeing as pretty much all metal songs sound alike. Never heard Meshuggah, but I'm just going to assume that they sound like every other metal band on the planet. Somebody tell me I'm wrong.

StallionMang, you're wrong. Factually wrong. Anyone with working eardrums would be able to tell the difference between Meshuggah and, say, Protest the Hero. Meshuggah is extremely distinctive, and this is coming from someone who does not even care for them.

Not only that, metal is an extremely varied genre; sure, like all genres many bands tend to sound alike, especially to an ear that does not care for it, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a person who cannot tell the difference between Periphery and Immortal, Oceano and The Human Abstract, or SikTh and Bloodbath.

Thanks to Thanatopsis for the insight. Not a metal fan, obviously, but in hindsight, it was a pretty stupid statement. Gonna check out Meshuggah later, but I still don't know that an instrumental metal show would be all that great.